{"id":362,"date":"2016-05-19T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=362"},"modified":"2016-08-02T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T01:00:55","slug":"outcome-voice","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/chapter\/outcome-voice\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Voice","rendered":"Outcome: Voice"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Explain the active and passive voices, as well as the reasons to use both<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210739\/noun_36122-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"icon of a talking head\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe term <em>voice<\/em>\u00a0is used to mean\u00a0several different things in writing. In this course, the\u00a0focus will be on the more technical sense of the term as the\u00a0active and passive voices are discussed. The passive voice has\u00a0likely been heard of by you. The passive voice is often warned against because a lack of urgency and a feeling of monotony can be created by overuse of the passive voice.\r\n\r\nWas that last paragraph a difficult read? Perhaps you found yourself rereading sentences to determine exactly what thing was doing what action.\u00a0The previous paragraph was written entirely in the passive voice. This kind of passive voice stack up is\u00a0what makes English teachers (and word processors) rail against the passive voice as a whole. However, there are some instances where the passive voice is a better choice than the active.\r\n\r\nIn this outcome, we\u2019ll learn about the active and passive voices, their construction, and their correct use.\r\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Explain the active voice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Explain the passive voice<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>The Learning Activities for This Outcome Include<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Text: Active and Passive Voice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Text: Using the Passive Voice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Self Check: Voice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Try It: Voice<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Explain the active and passive voices, as well as the reasons to use both<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2016\/07\/28210739\/noun_36122-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"icon of a talking head\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The term <em>voice<\/em>\u00a0is used to mean\u00a0several different things in writing. In this course, the\u00a0focus will be on the more technical sense of the term as the\u00a0active and passive voices are discussed. The passive voice has\u00a0likely been heard of by you. The passive voice is often warned against because a lack of urgency and a feeling of monotony can be created by overuse of the passive voice.<\/p>\n<p>Was that last paragraph a difficult read? Perhaps you found yourself rereading sentences to determine exactly what thing was doing what action.\u00a0The previous paragraph was written entirely in the passive voice. This kind of passive voice stack up is\u00a0what makes English teachers (and word processors) rail against the passive voice as a whole. However, there are some instances where the passive voice is a better choice than the active.<\/p>\n<p>In this outcome, we\u2019ll learn about the active and passive voices, their construction, and their correct use.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain the active voice<\/li>\n<li>Explain the passive voice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Learning Activities for This Outcome Include<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Text: Active and Passive Voice<\/li>\n<li>Text: Using the Passive Voice<\/li>\n<li>Self Check: Voice<\/li>\n<li>Try It: Voice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-362\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Voice. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Talking. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lucian Dinu. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/\">https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/pdm\">Public Domain: No Known Copyright<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":46,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Voice\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"pd\",\"description\":\"Talking\",\"author\":\"Lucian Dinu\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\" https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/talking\/36122\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"pd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b81e3a1e-cd5c-460b-a1fe-c4d1cd5e18b5","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-362","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":21,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions\/1743"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/21"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}